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In a recent post, Bruce Buzbee teased the genealogy software community by smudging the text of a mysterious 4th tab. In a way I hate to be the spoiler and steal Bruce’s thunder, but I can’t help myself. Actually it is Bruce’s fault. He threw down the gauntlet and issued the challenge. Maybe after Bruce is finished getting mad at me, he will give me a copy of RootsMagic 4 for being so clever.

Earlier this month, Bruce Buzbee of RootsMagic started his own blog. Welcome to the genealogy blogging community and the blogosphere! I met Bruce back in March of this year and he is a very nice person. I’m looking forward to reading as he shares the inside scoop on what is happening at RootsMagic.

In the last few posts at RootsMagic Blog, Bruce has leaked some new features of the upcoming RootsMagic 4. He says he will start small and progressively reveal more. The buzz is starting and you can sense the excitement as you read the comments. Some readers are trying to guess what the new features will be while others are hoping that their wishlist items will be included. Not all of the new features hinted at in the screen shots are explained by Bruce, so I thought that I would get in on the fun and use my keen eye to try and figure things out.

I honestly have no inside information myself, so don’t take my guesses as fact. I simply opened my copy of RootsMagic 3 and compared it to the screen shots of RootsMagic 4. It was almost like trying to solve one of those puzzles you would find in the Highlights magazine.